The Magazine “Kadro”: The Perspective of Language And Literature

After the depression of 1929, in 1930s, when the idea of statism started to lead the world, the magazine “Kadro”, published by some of the Marxist intellectuals except Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, mostly supported the intellectuality of new political regime. Therefore, the movement “Kadro” gave voice to the perspective of standing for all kinds of governmental interventions, particularly economical interference and adopted the idea of an authoritarian government. In this article, the magazine “Kadro” will be examined in terms of the perspective of language and literature. The magazine “Kadro” started publishing before ‘Türk Dil Kurumu’, and after “TDK” was established, it became the assertor of the new government’s view of language and literature. It is known that there are 36 issues of the magazine and when all the issues are scrutinized, the simplification in the language can be detected. In this composition, we will try to shed light on the different points of the movement “Kadro”, which has great impacts on our literary world.

Keywords

the movement “Kadro”, Kadrocular (the supporters of the movement), Şevket Süreyya Aydemir, Yakup Kad